London, April 12 (ANI): Playing online puzzles like crosswords and wordsearch could help your brain stay active and reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, scientists say.

London, March 25 (ANI): Word puzzles may offer a solution to those who can't get a song out of their head.

London, March 14 (ANI): More people in Britain are playing online crosswords than having sex, according to a shocking new poll.

New York, Mar 14 (ANI): A new alarm-clock app rouses sleepy heads by making them solve complicated math equations, logic games and other puzzles.

Washington, February 25 (ANI): Just like humans love getting stuck into a crossword, chimpanzees get the same feeling of satisfaction from completing tricky puzzles, a new study has found.

Washington, November 21 (ANI): New work by a team of astronomers that has yielded exquisitely precise distances of a large sample of clusters may lead to breakthroughs in understanding the expansion history of our Universe and Dark Energy, one of the major puzzles in astronomy.

London, October 12 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have not only explained why some Sudoku puzzles are harder than others but have also developed a mathematical algorithm that solves them very quickly and without any guessing or backtracking.

London, September 17 (ANI): Spending hours on Sudoku or crosswords can really pay off, researchers say.

Washington, July 26 (ANI): Scientists have solved two solar system puzzles - explaining how did icy comets obtain particles that formed at high temperatures, and how did these refractory particles acquire rims with different compositions.

New Delhi, April 26 (ANI): "If there is one tragedy in my life today, it is that I can't read and write (due to a problem with her vision). I used to do crossword puzzles night and day. I used read books, one after the other, especially detective novels with a lot of sex in them (winks), my daughter-in-law Seema (grand daughter of Munshi Premchand) used to bring them for me...but now I can't read. I accept it. Its ok...after all I have lived a hundred years."

New Delhi, April 26 (ANI): "If there is one tragedy in my life today, it is that I can't read and write (due to a problem with her vision). I used to do crossword puzzles night and day. I used read books, one after the other, especially detective novels with a lot of sex in them (winks), my daughter-in-law Seema (grand daughter of Munshi Premchand) used to bring them for me...but now I can't read. I accept it. Its ok...after all I have lived a hundred years."

Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): While cognitive training including puzzles, handicrafts and life skills are known for reducing the risk and slowing down the progress of dementia amongst the elderly, researchers have now shown that it may also improve reasoning, memory, language and hand eye co-ordination of healthy, older adults.

London, Dec 1 (ANI): Simple activities like solving puzzles, gardening, making snacks and singing can halt progression of dementia, a new study has revealed.

Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): Brain training other than with the use of crossword puzzles can prove to be more effective in improving cognitive function, a new study has claimed.

London, August 10 (ANI): Facing problem in solving puzzles, sums or quizzes? Well, then blame your parents for it.